Major shortage forces doctors to ration important antibiotic

A worldwide shortage of the widely used antibiotic piperacillin-tazobactam has forced doctors in Britain to ration the medicine while the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had to import non-approved drugs from Canada.

The drug, which is sold as Tazocin and Zosyn, is commonly used in intensive care medicine and to treat a range of conditions including pneumonia, urinary tract infections and diabetic foot infections.

Jeanne July 2nd, 2017 at 1:38 pm

Almost There July 2nd, 2017 at 3:34 pm

Jeanne, as you already know, so many things have become resistant and Vanc doesn’t work for everything and is hard on the veins. Nowadays, they often run a suseptability test to see what the bug is suseptible to. They have even come up with an antimicrobial stewardship program per JC recommendations so they treat with the right thing. Times have definitely changed.